Dear Stefan, The line 648 of the schema *jhove.xsd* contains: <xs:any namespace="http://www.aes.org/audioObject http://www.loc.gov/mix/" processContents="skip" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/> You say that the element *mix:DateTimeCreated* from line 32 of *mix2.xml* contained in an element *mix:mix* should not be validated. But the element *mix:mix* is in the namespace *http://www.loc.gov/mix/*, allowed by the above attribute *namespace* of *xs:any*, and the attribute *processContents* has the value *skip* (that means no validation for any element from the allowed namespaces). So *mix2.xml* is valid. For more information please read the section *Wildcards* of the W3C XML Schema recommendation: http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#Wildcards Best regards, Sorin <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com/ Stefan Funk wrote:

Dear Sorin.

Please have a look at the examples following:

(1) The first one is not valid according to oxygen 5.1, as the <mix:DateTimeCreated> turns out wrong (it's value must be "2002-10-23T16:47:53" following the xml schema). This is ok:

---------------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <mix:mix xmlns:mix="http://www.loc.gov/mix/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mix/ http://www.loc.gov/mix/mix.xsd"> <mix:ImageCreation> <mix:DateTimeCreated>2002:10:23 16:47:53</mix:DateTimeCreated> </mix:ImageCreation> </mix:mix> ----------------------------------------

(2) The second example validates correctly, and it has the correct value. That's ok, too:

---------------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <mix:mix xmlns:mix="http://www.loc.gov/mix/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mix/ http://www.loc.gov/mix/mix.xsd"> <mix:ImageCreation> <mix:DateTimeCreated>2002-10-23T16:47:53</mix:DateTimeCreated> </mix:ImageCreation> </mix:mix> ----------------------------------------

(3) The third example is the same (incorrect) <mix:DateTimeCreated> field shown in (1) encapsulated in a Jhove object, and it is valid according to oxygen 5.1, althought the <mix:DateTimeCreated> should turn out not to be valid. That is (I think) not ok:

---------------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <jhove date="2005-02-04" name="Jhove" release="1.0 (beta 3)" xmlns="http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/xml/ns/jhove" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/xml/ns/jhove http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/xml/xsd/jhove/1.3/jhove.xsd"> <date>2005-05-24T14:16:23+02:00</date> <repInfo uri="foo.tif"> <properties> <property> <name>TIFFMetadata</name> <values arity="Array" type="Property"> <property> <name>IFDs</name> <values arity="List" type="Property"> <property> <name>IFD</name> <values arity="Array" type="Property"> <property> <name>Entries</name> <values arity="List" type="Property"> <property> <name>NisoImageMetadata</name> <values arity="Scalar" type="NISOImageMetadata"> <value> <mix:mix xmlns:mix="http://www.loc.gov/mix/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mix/ http://www.loc.gov/mix/mix.xsd"> <mix:ImageCreation> <mix:DateTimeCreated>2002:10:23 16:47:53</mix:DateTimeCreated> </mix:ImageCreation> </mix:mix> </value> </values> </property> </values> </property> </values> </property> </values> </property> </values> </property> </properties> </repInfo> </jhove> ----------------------------------------

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Many thanks and greetings from Goettingen. Stefan.

Sorin Ristache schrieb am 24.05.2005 14:58:

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Dear Stefan,

Validation of a document in <oXygen/> implies that all the tags and their content are checked against the specified schema. There is no depth limit of tag nesting. If you think validation doesn't work correctly please post samples of your documents and their associated schemas and point out the problem so that we be reproduce it.

Best regards, Sorin

Stefan Funk wrote:

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Hello dear Oxygen users.

How deep does Oxygen validate in a xml-structure? I have a file definitely not well-formed at one point somewhere down the 16th grade and it validates. If I copy out that part in another not so deep file, it doesn't.

Greetings. Stefan.